Can you open carry with an empty mag in the gun?

[sweetcaddy]

1. I'm not going to open carry

2. This is just a question, I know that it would cause more reason to be checked and drawed down on.

3. You don't have to tell me this is a bad idea and not to open carry, I'm just asking a question.



Can you open carry with a unloaded magazine in the firearm? No ammunition in or touching the mag or the gun?

[Doheny]

I believe that's how most people do it (from the videos I've seen.)

[manuelcardenas77]

I believe thats how your supposed to. In California..

[lorax3]

Can you open carry with a unloaded magazine in the firearm? No ammunition in or touching the mag or the gun?

Yes.

In fact if I were to open carry I would prefer having an empty magazine in the firearm as opposed to an empty magwell.

This is a legal concern due to People. V Hale and not having to worry about accidental concealment of the magazine or not having a 'complete firearm'.

[asme]

A friend of mine open carried at Yosemite a few weeks back with no magazine in the gun and loaded mags in his pocket. When rangers had a chat with him on two separate occasions they told him they didn't "e" check him because there was no magazine in the gun.

Now, one could lambaste the rangers for flawed logic, but still, one data point.

[bigian]

I'm not trying to sound dumb or sarcastic but what's the piont of carrying and displaying an unloaded hand gun?

[pontiacpratt]

I'm not trying to sound dumb or sarcastic but what's the piont of carrying and displaying an unloaded hand gun?

Especially with an empty mag in it... that just added another step to an already long process, and in the case you actually need a loaded weapon your still going to have to carry a loaded mag somewhere

[Foriegn power]

bigian, you beat us all to it.

[IXMM]

I'm not trying to sound dumb or sarcastic but what's the piont of carrying and displaying an unloaded hand gun?

scare the bears away?

[resident-shooter]

I'm not trying to sound dumb or sarcastic but what's the piont of carrying and displaying an unloaded hand gun?

We all thought it, but u said it

[gotgunz]

I'm not trying to sound dumb or sarcastic but what's the piont of carrying and displaying an unloaded hand gun?

bigian, you beat us all to it.

scare the bears away?

We all thought it, but u said it

All of these win!

[juicemansam]

If I were to open carry, it would be with an empty magwell, with the slide held open, but that's thinking as a law-abiding slave in a slave state.

[GM4spd]

I'm not trying to sound dumb or sarcastic but what's the piont of carrying and displaying an unloaded hand gun?

Keeps people from stealing your quarters at the laundromat. Pete

[evidens83]

I'm not trying to sound dumb or sarcastic but what's the piont of carrying and displaying an unloaded hand gun?

You said what we all were thinking

[nukechaser]

I'm not trying to sound dumb or sarcastic but what's the piont of carrying and displaying an unloaded hand gun?

In CA, a firearm carried openly in a holster is not considered concealed. (PC 12025) So the point is that it is one way to carry if you do not have a CCW.

Also, bad guys don't know that your gun is unloaded if there is an empty magazine in the magazine well. But they DO know it if they can see a big, empty hole at the bottom of the grip. Plus, an empty mag keeps debris from possibly entering the mag well. It would suck to have to defend yourself and when you go to place a round into battery, your full magazine will not seat because of an obstruction in the mag well.

You may carry fully loaded magazines in magazine pouches on your belt, they just cannot be placed into a position from which they can be fired. (unless, of course, you're actually using it to lawfully defend yourself)

Most of this has been discussed at great length elsewhere in the CG forum. Just search for UOC, or check out http://www.californiaopencarry.org/C...aOpenCarry.pdf